Daily Life Humor

Several years ago a friend of mine was going on a medical trip with her family. Knowing that they would return exhausted, I arranged for her to stop by my house on her way back into town, for a ready-to-heat dinner.

The day arrived and the meal was prepared. About mid-afternoon I needed to run a few errands, so told my son, Mark, “If Nancy comes by before I get back, tell her that dinner’s in the fridge.”

Upon returning, I was cleaning up when Mark walked by and said, “Oh, you’re home. Nancy stopped by while you were gone. She looked all over the house for you, but couldn’t find you.”

With a sinking feeling I asked, “Did you tell her to look in the fridge?”

To which Mark replied, “Why no! Why would you be in the fridge?”

It’s a funny story, but for many years I wondered why God would want to live in “the fridge.” Only more recently have I come to realize that He does not look at me as though I were a “weight problem.” He views my excess poundage as an opportunity to conform me to the image of Christ – from the inside out.